Hide the youngsters! Pad the water coolers! Get Derrek Lee into protecting custody! Heads up, people — Big Z is again on the town! Yep, former Cubs pitcher and one-time strolling volcano Carlos Zambrano — all 6-Four and 275 kilos (or so) of him — is suiting as much as play baseball as soon as once more in Chicago at age 37. But the large fellow’s not again with the Cubs, for whom he performed 11 of his 12 major-league seasons, from 2001 to 2011. No, he’s making a comeback as a reduction pitcher for the Chicago Dogs of the American Association of Independent Professional Baseball. Never heard of the Dogs? Well, they’re named after scorching
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MIAMI — Tiger Woods at some point, Carlos Zambrano the following? ‘‘Why not?’’ the burly former Cubs right-hander stated as he mingled Monday with gamers and employees on the sphere at Marlins Park earlier than the crew’s recreation in opposition to the Marlins. ‘‘Bartolo [Colon] pitched until he was 45. I’m 37.’’ Of course, Colon by no means beat up his catcher, by no means went after his first baseman within the dugout and by no means ‘‘retired’’ in the course of a recreation after getting ejected for drilling Chipper Jones with a pitch. And Colon by no means went seven seasons between major-league pitches.Ben Zobrist chats with former pitcher Carlos Zambrano earlier than the Cubs’ recreation Monday